The project “Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education”, funded by European Commission, brings ESCS and three other foreign higher education institutions together.

ESCS is one of the four Higher Education institutions that is promoting the “Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education” (AI-HED) project, which received €250,000, from the European Commission, within the scope of the Key Action 2 (KA2: Cooperation among organisations and institutions) of the Erasmus+ programme. The application, which received 89 points out of 100, was submitted by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), in partnership with ESCS (that belongs to the Polytechnic University of Lisbon), the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna (UAS-BFI) and the Faculty of Organization and Informatics of the University of Zagreb (FOI).

The Polytechnic University of Lisbon/ESCS team for the AI-HED project is composed by Ana Raposo, Bruno Amaral and Tatiana Nunes, all of them teachers of the Public Relations and Organizational Communication department.

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The main objective of the AI-HED project is to adjust teaching and learning environments in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to the shifts caused by Artificial Intelligence (AI). With this project, the consortium wants to explore, explore, test and conceptualise the impact of AI on teaching and learning, enhance teachers’ skills, competences and attitudes to use AI in teaching and learning, enhance students’ skills, competences and attitudes to use AI in learning and also develop recommendations for HEIs on integration of AI in teaching and learning.

AI-HED is a two years project, ending by the end of the academic year 2025/26, and will develop a variety of activities, such as:
• a set of measures to enhance the AI literacy of lecturers (AI starter kit, training and Massive Open Online Course – MOOC);
• design, implementation and evaluation of 16 pilot courses which integrate AI in teaching and learning from different disciplines;
• development of concluding recommendations on how to integrate AI in teaching and learning;
• a set of outreach activities to share the results with relevant stakeholders.

AI-HED focuses on a key topic of the on-going digital transformation: Artificial Intelligence. AI is spreading at an unprecedented pace and has a profound impact on higher education, as exemplified by the emergence of ChatGPT and similar tools. The project explores ways to adjust the teaching and learning environments at HEIs to the shifts caused by AI. More specifically, the project aims to test and conceptualise the impact of AI on the teaching and learning process, to enhance the skills and competences of teachers and students to use AI in teaching and learning environments, and to develop recommendations for HEIs on integration of AI in the teaching and learning process in a responsible, critical and inclusive way,